Costa Rica approves bill that allows the cultivation of Cannabis

With the support of 29 deputies, the bill that allows the cultivation of cannabis was approved. The initiative intends to regulate and allow the access and use of cannabis and its derivatives exclusively for medicinal and therapeutic use. In addition, it authorizes the production, industrialization and commercialization of hemp for industrial and food use and psychoactive cannabis for exclusively medicinal and therapeutic purposes and its derivative products. The deputy promoter of the initiative Zoila Volio Pacheco emphasized that with the approval of the initiative a light of hope is given to patients who requires this treatment. Congresswoman Zoila Volio Pacheco also emphasized that the project opens possibilities to make important transformations and that it will serve to change the models of the agro-industry in Costa Rica.